Pulitzer-winning author Annie Dillard dies at 81, leaving a luminous literary legacy

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Pulitzer-winning author Annie Dillard dies at 81, leaving a luminous literary legacy
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard, famed for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, has died at age 81. Her 1974 nature-writing book turned her into a cultural phenomenon and was lauded as Thoreau-esque, with prose that offered glimpses of the eternal.

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